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Monthly General Meeting

Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Age

Presented by Eric Prager
An intellectual property lawyer specializing in digital media

Thursday January 15, 2008   7PM

Copyright laws have been around for a long time, but the digital age is - well pretty new. Are the old laws really inadequate? Is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a good thing?

Can you legally photograph in the subways, City Streets, Grand Central Station, Central Park, Disneyland, etc. How about photographing private property within view of a public street, such as store windows? Are celebrity photos fair game: even in private locations? If a security guard, a policeman, or a stranger demands you hand over your camera or memory chip must you do so or is this just harassment?

Can you copyright a photograph, your written words, or your You Tube Videos by just placing a “c” with a circle around it, or just writing the word copyright on the item? When do you need a=2 0model release and what is the proper wording? If a release is valid in New York is it good nationwide?

Can you publish photos for editorial use or for an art book or exhibition without getting a release? Can you reuse images, or various writings from the web? Can you use some, all, or none? What is privileged under the fair use doctrine?

The answer to many of the above questions is: it depends. Fortunately our speaker, Eric Prager, is an intellectual property lawyer and focuses much of his practice on digital media and content issues. He is a partner in the New York office of law firm K&L Gates. K&L Gates is an international law firm with 1700 lawyers around globe. He will address copyright issues associated with digital photography and other content, publicity/privacy rights, and model releases. Eric will also touch upon image rights that some building owners claim to have in the appearance of their buildings.

And the best part may be that Eric will take questions on any intellectual property issues we want to th row his way, from patent trolls to counterfeit DVDs to software licensing.

Eric’s background is truly impressive, have a look at his website:
http://www.klgates.com/professionals/Detail.aspx?professional=5837

The Meeting is Free and Open to All. If you are not a member we hope you will become one so we can continue to bring you good meetings like this one.

6:00PM   Doors Open
6:30PM   Announcements, Questions and Answers
7PM - 9PM Presentation

The meeting is at our usual location, PS 41.
116 West 11th Street (just West of 6th Avenue)  Google Map (new window)



Meetings

NYPC holds our General Meeting on the third Thursday of the month at 6:00 PM (normally, but not always). We usually meet in the Auditorium of PS 41 on 11th Street just west of Sixth Avenue (116 West 11th Street). See a Google Map* of the area. During the summer months we meet in other air conditioned locations. 

NYPC general meetings are free and open to the public.

Previous Meetings

See what you missed at our previous general meetings.

 

Some of our members are new to computers, while others are computer pros. Some of our meetings feature NYPC members who share their special areas of expertise such as Genealogy, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Wireless Networking, Palm PDA’s, and Treo Phones, Antivirus Protection, and Windows Tips and Traps.

Outside Speakers have included, Jeff Hawkins inventor of the Palm Pilot, David Pogue NY Times columnist, Peter Norton, the man behind Norton Utilities, Bill Gates – well you know, Andy Grove CEO of Intel, Katrin Eismann, Photoshop Diva and author, Eric Raymond author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. PC Magazine’s Michael Miller, Bill Machrone, Alfred Poor and John Dvorak have also spoken at our General Meeting.

Many computer companies have sent representatives to our meetings including: Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Compaq, Symantec, Lotus, Novel, Trend Micro, Intuit, Olympus Cameras, Corel, Color Vision, Pro Graphics, 4G Data Systems, Palm, Handspring, Tekserve, and Apple computers.

If there is a topic you'd like covered, send an email to Bill Ginsberg at programs@nypc.org.

PS41 is accessible by subway (A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, V to West 4th Street, or, 1, 2, 3, 9 and L to 14th Street and Seventh Avenue) and by Path (take the 33rd Street line to the Ninth Street Station). 

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